Value Before the verb

Language:
Belizean Creole
Parameter:
Position of standard negation
References
Escure 1983

Examples

  1. Yu neva ivn̩ memba dat if a neva kum ya kum tɛl yu.
    Yu
    2sg
    neva
    ant.neg
    ivn̩
    even
    memba
    remember
    dat
    that
    if
    if
    a
    1sg
    neva
    ant.neg
    kum
    come
    ya
    here
    kum
    come
    tɛl
    tell
    yu.
    2sg
    You would not even have remembered if I had not come to tell you.

    See Escure 1992

  2. Yu no waak da ridj de.
    Yu
    2sg
    no
    neg
    waak
    walk
    da
    that
    ridj
    ridge
    de.
    there
    You don't walk along that ridge.

    See Escure 1983: 36